I keep showing you guys this build because it's supposed to be my biggest build of 2022
and you're only seeing this wall it's the entire basement but more on that
another time I've been making videos for so long my daughter's in a room and I don't want to talk
too loud because it's embarrassing how to make a video anyways remember when we started the
aquarium Gallery built it from nothing the entire building itself and the whole point to it was to
grow the aquarium hobby inspire people set up aquariums and different fish and educate and
Inspire and do all kinds of things and we did just that however I remember saying before a single
fish was out here what's going to be happening with those tanks and this is truly exciting so
I don't plan to keep all of the fish for their lifetimes I'm not looking to raise them from
fry breed them and keep them till they're dead type of thing until they die off naturally and
that sounds mean but here's what I'd like to do each tank is going to be set up individually it's
probably going to take a few weeks to do each tank obviously we're not going to be able to do all at
once runs thank for the uh Super Chat my friend love from Australia love from Canada uh so all of
these tanks are not going to be set up all at once now Envision this imagine tank number one and how
long it's going to take us to get to tank number 10. that's probably going to be you know I don't
know two months maybe something like that a month and that's that's a tremendously short period of
time considering we have to plumb each tank Escape each tank you know stock each tank uh and so forth
but here's what excites me about this I actually said this at a meet up in Halifax imagine if
um I only kept each tank running for about a year then we switched out some of the stalking maybe we
um changed the Aquascape so you know maybe I didn't have a live Bearer tank at first but
then we got one so imagine this tank one all the tanks are set up for about a year then I started
on tank one right I switch all that out a month later I switch another one out a month later I
switch a month another one oh you know it sounds horrible saying it like that but by the time I
get to the other tank two years have gone by I don't think that's the real timeline and I don't
think I'm gonna do them in that exact order but by the time I switch out the last tank the first
tank we switched out is now 10 months old and you know we did that for a couple of years now
here's the problem at around the three year mark of the aquarium Gallery existing I decided I was
going to launch a public aquarium and I slowly systematically like kind of broke down the 120s
we're gonna be moving a lot of things ordered in 10 180 gallon aquariums brought in the 700
gallon here and kind of just started going with a few things and then that didn't end up happening
was totally out of my control and I felt like that the gallery was just spiraling it was no
longer mine it was just kind of like I was just shoving things in here because I got them and
I'm upset and I don't want to waste anything but the build in the basement certainly inspired me
to reconsider everything that I'm doing and we're gonna make some changes first and foremost plans
for this room let me just explain a few things first the floor in here is like disgusting
scraping it you know uh floods fish tanks stands everything just being pulled all over the walls
are all banged up and gross even the ceiling needs to be done so first and foremost this
entire gallery is getting a facelift I'm painting everything ceilings walls and Floors which is all
relatively boring boring but it complicates everything because there's fish out here
let me tell you what I'm doing with this room I don't want this here anymore which is just packed
with like camera equipment and that sort of thing and a bottle of spray paint obviously and um a
fridge where I keep fish food and uh usually beer not gonna lie um I want this to be the piranha
room I want everything else out of here I don't even want the uh remember when we used to have
like drapes on here I want all of this out I want it completely empty I want it to feel Airy in here
if that makes it if that's even a word paint the floors gray again they've got to be prepped this
is going to be a nightmare you see the back wall there you see I was like um fake wood paneling
you see this uh board here that's remember there used to be a wall here right the wall
is coming back excuse what I'm wearing and how filthy I am but I've been working all day
I want the wall to obviously come to here kind of line up with the tanks have a door opening right
here I don't want a door oh it's gonna hit here or it's gonna hit there or it's gonna hit this
I want a sliding door like a sliding barn door
it'll be pretty cool so then we have the piranha room right here a bench that I can
come in here and sit and enjoy this stuff without stumbling all over everything because I'm always
fiddling with something out here which I love doing too but this will be the piranha room then
we Slide the door open and it becomes the 2 000 gallon sitting room what about way over there oh
that's gonna be a different room we'll get to that room in a second I want to sit on a little love
seat here and it's got to be a love seat of course because Tamara or my son or my daughter might come
out here and sit with me and we're all in love they hate me I will sit here just like this I
really did do this to see if a loveseat right here would be perfect and it is but of course
I just finished building these 70 gallon acrylic aquariums they're too big well
they're not too big they're too tall so and I like to repurpose everything or as much as I can
so that's the legs to one of the 70 gallon stands that's one of the 70 gallons just out here I have
nowhere else to put it it's fine it's uh it's not cold or too hot I gotta rinse it out and clean it
really well that is the bridge tanks more on that in a second um I just cut the legs shorter and
I want the legs or I want the tank well see right now how it's taller than the um the 2000 it's
taller by about seven inches this is four feet tall probably a few inches with the rock paneling
but I want it to be level because this wall from here to about here is going to be a planted wall
or like a wall with plants don't get too excited I don't think it's gonna be real
like moss wall oh that that would be cool just be way too humid and uncomfortable it'd be the
same plants that are like this stuff here can you see it I'll get out of the way this stuff
but from floor to ceiling this is going back to White the ceiling's going back
to White and that wall is going back to White I want it nice and bright and crisp out here
so a 70 gallon there shortened it'll look much better I gotta wrap it too
I'm I'm waiting to find out what I want to do with this other wall before I wrap those
um but I got to paint this floor paint these walls these tanks gotta get moved but a 70 there and a
70 there the tanks are 32 inches it's out about 36 inches right now because I was messing around and
um oh sorry and leveling it with this wall just to see what it would look like I don't like it
um so I'm going to push it back because the I want the love seat to at least be level with it I don't
know why I like things to be perfectly lined up perfectly straight perfectly centered but uh
I don't know I don't know if that's OCD or not but remember the king of DIY logo I want
to put that back there or I might put it on the wall I haven't decided but I'm leaning towards
there because the 375 has got to turn into an aquaponic system more on that in a second oh
there's a lot of exciting things happening well in my opinion you might hate all of it
that filter's got to go I want to build a large filter just for this in that room dedicated to
this tank period I might even wrap it into the 700 so they're filtered off the same filter just for
um you know the extra water volume and whatnot now seahorses and all the shrimp are in this
tank right now it's running off a canister filter that I hard plumped into it but the guppy tank
is gone used to be right here I mean look at this this is years five years of fish tanks
and floods and uh well that was my my butt went through this because remember when I tried to
put the 375 up there I had to put my back against the wall to push my legs and I almost went through
the wall because my uh my uh well I got a lot of junk in the trunk apparently Guppies are up here
right now in that South American Tank I believe Tyrese is going to go in a 70 gallon so it'll be
the this cool planter tank and then Tyrese right beside it because he's such he's become such a
um friendly puffer fish can you even see them yeah it's such a puffer friendly puffer fish
the tank is only 70 gallons but that doesn't matter because it's the the footprint is 32
by 32 and he's only about eight inches so he'll be perfect in there uh for quite some time now
here's the exciting part all right you see where the table is I'm just going to put you right here
on these old t-shirts that I probably should have showed on so I have my own t-shirts on um
this is eight feet from that wall I had three feet between you and here lots of walking space
I need about three feet two feet minimum I can work with about 18 inches to kind
of Squirt through you know what I'm talking about I want to take
and by the time you've seen this video I don't know when it's coming out it could be in a
couple weeks or something I'm just trying to get ahead and film this is tough to do all this and
film because I'm always sweaty filthy dirty hungry I'm gonna take a 180 and put it here
I want it to be four feet off the ground though so that you can see it from the entrance and you
can see over the 2000 because the two thousand square feet and I want these to be four feet
oh I'll explain what this means in a second 180 here six feet from the wall two feet out
another 180 here wait so it's like an L shape that's two of them the other
two same idea there to there I'll have a three foot entrance in between them
a massive area back here and I thought to myself well that doesn't even look that good let's build
a wall up like I'm kind of doing in the basement like the false wall with the tanks built into it
I don't think I said that before I'm not editing this a pulse these false walls it's
going to look like it's a whole other area but I don't think I'm going to put a door on it oh
and this light above me is on this side of the room in the center of the door that worked out
perfectly I hate moving light fixtures but um so that leaves a massive room area back
here that's 11 feet wide beside the two tanks because this is 15 feet this way to that way and
six feet this way
I had initial plans to do a peninsula with an aquaponics system in the Middle with all the
tanks connected but I thought to myself now I'd rather have these tanks built into the wall it'd
be more Gallery like it'd be far cooler plus I love seeing through seeing through tanks I
think it would just be absolutely phenomenal salt water fresh water Lord knows what Lord knows what
but right here in the middle I'm thinking about taking that 375 gallon tank putting
it on the floor stay with me what a waste of a tank no way put a big fish in there
like some sort of a monster fish of some sort nothing too crazy maybe some sort of
a catfish I don't know let me know in the comment section below what you think could
do for life in a 375 heck we might even do a silver arowana you guys want me to get one of
them like badly and I think it's because you you're so jealous of my Asian arowana that you
want me to have a silver so you don't feel so bad and you know what I have to say about that
oh man he ever looked bad today this is like he's hungry too bad I hope you're jealous of
my fish it feels so good when somebody's like oh man I love your tanks your tanks are so awesome
somebody said that about your fish tanks and it's one of the best feelings of all time so
375 on the ground aquaponics system growing out through it and I'm talking mate well I know I can
grow lettuce out here but originally I was going to um have the aquaponic system on top of all the
180s and I was like oh that only gives me two feet I gotta grow something that doesn't get to two
feet tall lighting's got to be up there but if I had this on the floor and I had six feet of space
man now things just got interesting didn't they because every day come out here and I'm telling
you right now I know what I'm going to do I'd come out here and I'd sit right in front of this
and drink my coffee then I'd open my sliding door which I love the sound of sliding doors anyways
uh open my sliding door into the 2000 gallon viewing area where you literally just sit here
and I'm thinking about putting the podcast out here but downstairs is kind
of being designed around that [ __ ] I did it again ignore the basement
but then when I feel like tinkering we go into this like uh this new area that we never get to
do I've shown you aquaponics systems before and how to do it how to build them but then we walk
through this doorway and we have this like little area where I think I'll even have a couple like
little tables I don't know I don't know but I know that I'll have three feet of space to walk around
all the tanks except for the bottom back Corners where I'll only have about 18 inches of space for
about two feet not a problem I'm not sold on all of this but I do know if this video comes
out it's all happening I just know that it's a lot of work especially trying to paint all these walls
because it all has to be done in sections so I got to move all this stuff first
and then I can paint this section of the floor these walls that ceiling and then I'll build a
couple of stands move these over these two tanks over uh rip this out of here and then
I can paint this section of floor and those walls I could do this almost anytime and then
finally uh take these off the stands build more finish painting it's got to be done in
sections and that really sucks it's not like I'm dealing with an empty area it's a it's a
functioning Gallery there's there's fish out here within tanks and I'm doing it all
by myself I think I think I take two do-it-yourself too seriously anyways
I hope that I kind of lost you in all this and you don't it's tough to explain your vision to
somebody because a lot of people don't understand it so I I really wanted to have something to show
you but I can't keep my mouth shut about anything I'm excited and I can't wait to get started
oh and I'm gonna wrap the 70 gallons once I lower them these are going to match whatever
I do with those walls and I'm thinking those walls should have that stuff on it
because I know what when I put this wall up it's going to match that so maybe
it would it would like it would tie into that and it is gray makes sense
I'm also uploading this to you guys uh for two reasons one I'm letting you know that
this is happening for support well second of all somebody's always got
a genius idea that's better than mine and um it members only especially and I
always like to steal their ideas and claim them as my own and never give them credit
I don't know if I've actually ever done that but I definitely teach them anyways hope you
guys enjoyed the video let me know what you think um break the video down into portions
if you have to but this is now going to be a three room Gallery the 700 room the 2000
room and then of course the aquaponics area where it's just going to be like a little experimenting
lab where we try different vegetables I can't wait to grow lettuce and stuff and then feed
it to my children and don't tell them that it came off of I grew this lettuce off fish poop
I'm so well I'm a dad and I'm a troll but anyways let me know you guys thoughts I gotta get back to
work I'll try to film as much as this as possible but remember I am a one-man show maybe I'll get
Tamara to help me but to be honest I'd rather do everything alone it's like my meditation time you
know what I'm talking about if you've ever done something Have you ever built anything yourself
it looks horrible out here right now but it's looked horrible for a long time but I see the
light at the end of the tunnel and I can't wait to show you guys yeah because the 700 is done there's
nothing else to do to it obviously I take the food off it take these lights off but those are grow
lights I'll probably use them for the aquaponics I got like eight of those these eight little LED
light tubes I already got them why not let's use them all they're plant growth um this area is done
I mean I gotta patch the walls paint them get everything out of here that's actually what I'm
doing tonight except no paint um build a 2x4 wall super simple take that paneling screw it to it
um hang the door this is really actually that pretty simple and if you guys can't wait for
like updates and that sort of thing or you want to see way ahead of time
um check out the members only section of this uh Channel also called onlyfins they named it not me
um but uh helps the channel out I get all all kinds of uh gives them all kinds of sneak peeks
and I just show them everything but there's a lot of feedback and communication you get onto the uh
to the uh the Discord and all that sort of stuff anyway as well I forget everything they get just
check it out see if it's worth your time and uh your money because uh it's like for 4.99 a month
helps me out a lot and helps me do these types of things and these big jobs because they're not
necessarily that cheap and this place does have to kind of pay for itself anyways hope
you guys enjoyed the video um that's it this is gonna be dope I'm excited you better be excited